Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-15

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/ ONE marriage license was issued yester-
day.
RNEHART Opera Company at the Grand
tonight.
THE Council Committee on Claims will
meet this evening.
THERE were fifteen cases before His
Honor, yesterday morning.
A BALL will be given at Trosche's Hall,
in Fulton, tomorrow evening.
RICE, HART 4 RYMAN's Minstrels
stranded at Steubenville on Sunday night.
''YB,' said a girl on the street the
other day, my sister had the amonia and
the doctor gave her Queen Anne"
AL. G. FIELDS United operate Min
strels are the next attraction at the Opera
House, on Saturday evening next
REDDY WILLIAMS, of Bellaire, has sign
ed with 3 Davenport, Iowa, base ball
club for next season ut a handsome
salary.
Col. JACOB NUNGE will celebrate the
ffty-eighth anniversary Of his birth to-
morrow, and hopes to see all his friends
during the day.
LOUIS WHEELER yesterday qualified as
administrator with the will annexed OF
Christian Wheeler, deceased. Bond, $1,000;
Matilda Metzger, surety.
THE meeting of the Council Committee
on Health announced for last evening, was
not held, owing to the impOssibility of two
or three members being present.
CAPT. JOHN BOOTH was knocked down
and tramped upon by a vicious horse last
week at his home below Darlington. He
was so badly injured as to contine hime to
his room.
THE annual election Of officers Of the
Young Mems Christian Association, held
last evening, resulted in the election Of all
the old officers, with whose names the pub
lie is familiar.
JACOB WISE, 8 carpenter at the b. q Z.
shops, had one of his large toes badly
mashed the other day by a heavy timber,
which was being unloaded from q car,
falling upon it.
THE officers and delegates from the city
to the annual meeting of the Masonic
Grand Lodge of the State, which conyenes
at Charleston to-day, left yesterday for
that point. Important business is to be
transacted at the session.
THE girl Mary Darby, who was taken
from an East Wheeling house Of ill repute
recently, has returned. She was taken
out on complaint of City Missionary, Miss
Lizzie Boyd, and the Woman's Exchange
ladies had nothing to do with it.
MRS. MARY PAXTON, wife of the late
Alexander Paxton, died about l o'clock
Yesterday morning, in the eighty-third
wear of her age. The funeral will take
place this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the
residence of Mrs. o. w. Heiskell, on Chap
line street.
Mr.. GEO. burst, the confeetioner, has
brought from the celebrated establishment
of Huyler, of New York City, an expert
workman, and after to-day fine candies
will be turned out every hour, as is done
in the largest establishments in the
Metropolis.
THE Committee on Buildings and Grounds
of the Board OF Education met last evening
to accept a bid for putting up q fire escape
on the Fourth ward school building. The
estimate on the Washington district school
building was also made up for presenta-
ton before the meeting OF the Board on
Thursday.
THE many friends in Marshall county
of Captain Tucker will regret to learn of
his death, which was reported in this city
yesterday. He was a brother-in-law OF
Mrs. Rebecca Anshutz, formerly of Mounds
vile. The Captain held a government
position at Brooklyn, n. Y, at the time
Of his death.
MANY of the farmers OF the western part
of Washington county, says the Pittsburg
Times, who for years have been engaged
extensively in the breeding of sheep and
production of wool, are making so much
money out of the leases Of their lands to
oil and gas developers that they are
abandoning sheep ~husbandry altogether.
Years age wool sold readily at so, GO, 10
cents and even 81 a pound. This year
farmers are glad to average 30 cents.
AsMALL boy named Narg, employed at
the Belmont mill, was struck on the head
with a stone, thrown from among q crowd
of young toughs who were carrying on their
depredations around the mill, Sunday
evening. The little fellow was knocked
senseless, and the rascals skipped out
when they saw him fall. He was carried
to his home on Main street, where DIR.
Campbell dressed the wound, which was 3
very ugly one.